Send out email in shell script in Linux

Some times we need to send out email in shell script. The email can arrive the destination mail box if the mail server is in the same subnet.

If we need to send email to any mailbox, we have to logon the SMTP server to relay the email.

We can use mutt as the mail client to send out attachment and use nbsmtp as SMTP client to relay the email to the SMTP server.

For RedHat Linux, you need to download nbsmtp from http://download.chinaunix.net/download.php?id=14627&ResourceID=7230. After make, you needn't to run make install to install it if you have no root privilege. You can copy the generated nbsmtp to any folder and setup mutt to use nbsmtp in that folder to relay the email.

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Simple command to send email with mutt:

echo "test mail body." | mutt -n -x -s "test subject" youremailbox@yourmail.server.com -a /full/path/name/attachment

Ask mutt to use nbsmtp to relay email:

cat ~/.muttrc

set sendmail="/usr/local/bin/nbsmtp"

Ask nbsmtp to logon SMTP server:

cat ~/.nbsmtprc

relayhost=smtp.your.server
auth_user=mailbox
auth_pass=password
auth_mech=login
port=25
use_tls=True
use_starttls=True

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